Mufti Mohammad Sayeed | |
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 Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in 2015 | |
| 6thChief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir | |
| In office 1 March 2015 – 7 January 2016 | |
| Governor | Narinder Nath Vohra |
| Deputy | Nirmal Kumar Singh |
| Preceded by | Omar Abdullah |
| Succeeded by | Mehbooba Mufti |
| In office 2 November 2002 – 2 November 2005 | |
| Governor | Girish Chandra Saxena Srinivas Kumar Sinha |
| Preceded by | Governor's rule |
| Succeeded by | Ghulam Nabi Azad |
| Minister of Home Affairs | |
| In office 2 December 1989 – 10 November 1990 | |
| Prime Minister | V. P. Singh |
| Preceded by | Sardar Buta Singh |
| Succeeded by | Chandra Shekhar |
| Minister of Tourism | |
| In office 12 May 1986 – 14 July 1987 | |
| Prime Minister | Rajiv Gandhi |
| Preceded by | HKL Bhagat |
| Succeeded by | Jagdish Tytler |
| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| In office 1998 (1998) – 1999 (1999) | |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Maqbool Dar |
| Succeeded by | Ali Mohammed Naik |
| Constituency | Anantnag |
| In office 1989 (1989) – 1991 (1991) | |
| Preceded by | Dharamvir Singh Tyagi |
| Succeeded by | Naresh Kumar Baliyan |
| Constituency | Muzaffarnagar |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1936-01-12)12 January 1936 Bijbehara,Jammu & Kashmir,British India |
| Died | 7 January 2016(2016-01-07) (aged 79) New Delhi, India |
| Political party | Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party |
| Other political affiliations | Jammu & Kashmir National Conference(1950–1965) Indian National Congress(1965–1987, 1991–1999) Janata Dal(1987–1991) |
| Children | 4 (includingMehbooba Mufti,Tassaduq Hussain Mufti, Mehmooda Sayeed, andRubaiya Sayeed)[1] |
| Alma mater | Aligarh Muslim University |
| Occupation | Politician |
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed (12 January 1936 – 7 January 2016; Urdu: مفتی محمد سید) was an Indian politician who served as thechief minister of Jammu and Kashmir twice from November 2002 to November 2005 and from March 2015 until his death on January 7, 2016. He held various positions, includingminister of Tourism inRajiv Gandhi's cabinet andminister of Home Affairs inV. P. Singh's cabinet.[2] Sayeed began his political career in the wing of theNational Conference led byG. M. Sadiq, which later merged with theIndian National Congress. In 1987, he transitioned to theJanata Dal and subsequently founded thePeople's Democratic Party (PDP), a regional political party that remains influential inJammu and Kashmir, currently led by his daughter,Mehbooba Mufti.
Sayeed was born on 12 January 1936, inBijbehara,Anantnag district, then part of theprincely state ofJammu and Kashmir, British India, into a Kashmiri Shia Muslim clerical family. He completed his basic studies inSrinagar and earned his law and postgraduate degree inArabic fromAligarh Muslim University before entering politics.[3][4][5][6][7]
His daughter,Mehbooba Mufti, is a politician and former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.[1][8][9]
Sayeed started his political career in the 1950s in the Democratic National Conference, a splinter group of theJammu & Kashmir National Conference led byGhulam Mohammed Sadiq. He was appointed as the district convenor of the party,[10] which merged back into the National Conference in late 1960.[11]
In 1962, he was elected to theLegislative Assembly from Bijbehara. After G. M. Sadiq became the chief minister of the state in 1964, Sayeed was appointed as a deputy minister in his government.[10]
In January 1965, the National Conference merged into theIndian National Congress.[12] Thus Sayeed became a member of Congress.
In 1972, Sayeed became a cabinet minister and, the president of the state Congress unit.[10][13] He joined theRajiv Gandhi'sgovernment in 1986 asminister of Tourism.[13] In 1987, he quit the Congress party to joinV. P. Singh'sJan Morcha, which led to him becoming the first Muslimminister for Home Affairs in theUnion Cabinet of India for one year, from 1989 to 1990.[14][15]
He rejoined the Congress underP. V. Narasimha Rao, which he left in 1999 along with his daughterMehbooba Mufti to form his own party, theJammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party.[citation needed]
Sayeed participated in the 2002 assembly election and won 18 assembly seats for his Peoples Democratic Party. He went on to form acoalition government with the Indian National Congress, and was sworn in as the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir for a term of three years.[16]
In 2003, he merged the autonomousSpecial Operations Group with theJammu and Kashmir Police.[17] It was under his tenure which coincided with thepeace process led byIndian prime ministersAtal Bihari Vajpayee andManmohan Singh and Pakistani presidentPervez Musharraf, withLOC opened for trade and bus service.[18]
In the2014 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election, the PDP emerged as the single largest party, though it fell short of a majority. Following a coalition agreement between theBJP and the PDP, Sayeed started his second tenure as the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir in 2015.[19]
In 1989, within few days of taking office as theUnion Minister for Home Affairs, his third daughter, Rubaiya, waskidnapped in 1989.[20] Under pressure, she was released from captivity. During his tenure as Home Minister of India theExodus of Kashmiri Hindus took place.[21][22][23]
Besides attacks on family members Sayeed also survived attacks on his life by Kashmiri separatists. His daughter Rubaiya Sayeed was alsokidnapped on 9 December 1989.[20]
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On 24 December 2015, Sayeed was admitted to theAIIMS hospital in New Delhi. He suffered from neck pain and fever. His condition gradually deteriorated, and he was put on ventilator support. He died on 7 January 2016 due to multi-organ failure[24][25] at about 7:30, according to provincial Education Minister and PDP Spokesman Nayeem Akhter.[26] He was just five days short of his 80th birthday when he died.
Reactions to this death came from prime ministerNarendra Modi, national Home MinisterRajnath Singh at Delhi airport and the14th Dalai Lama.[27] He was buried at his ancestral burial ground in Bijbehera[28] with state honours. Former chief ministersOmar Abdullah andGhulam Nabi Azad were present at his funeral.[29] Condolences also came from former presidentPranab Mukherjee, former deputy prime ministerL. K. Advani,Ram Madhav, Delhi chief ministerArvind Kejriwal, BJP vice presidentMukhtar Abbas Naqvi, former national Oil ministerMilind Deora, PDP member Rafi Mir and politicians Kalraj Mishra,Jitendra Singh and Ahmed Patel.[26]
According to party member and PDP chief spokespersonMirza Mehboob Beg,[26] the PDP supported his daughter, Mehbooba Mufti, as the next chief minister, while coalition ally BJP expressed "no objection" to her succeeding her father.[29]
Sayeed was buried inDara Shikoh Garden Bijbehara.[30]
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament forAnantnag 1998–1999 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | Minister of Home Affairs 2 December 1989 – 10 November 1990 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir 2 November 2002 – 2 November 2005 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir 1 March 2015 – 7 January 2016 | Succeeded by |
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